The adaptive cruise contol (ACC) maintains a safe distance from the vehicle ahead at a selected speed, controlling the engine and actuating the brakes to automatically accelerate or decelerate as needed. The mechanism combines the cruise control system with a radar-based distance controller.

Travel assist integrates several systems and functions. When they are interconnected, the car can make driving a lot easier and increase travelling comfort. Once activated, travel assist can automatically stop and restart, keep the car in lane, or follow other vehicles in a traffic jam.

This assist is designed to keep you in the centre of the lane. This system works in conjunction with a camera to recognise lane markings on the road, including yellow lines during roadworks, traffic cones, and other roadside or lane borders. The enhanced “adaptive” variant (only available as part of travel assist) means that the system intervenes in an attempt to keep the vehicle in the selected track within the traffic lane, and the car does not “weave”.

Traffic jam assist makes it easier to drive a car in traffic jams. It draws on the adaptive cruise control and adaptive lane assist to start, brake and turn the car to copy the movement of surrounding vehicles in a traffic jam.

Emergency assist reduces risk of an incident if the driver is not feeling well. If adaptive lane assist detects that the driver does not have hands on the steering wheel even after a warning alert, emergency assist is activated, decelerates the car to halt while keeping it in lane and activating the hazard warning lights.

The front assist is a collision-alert safety system. Faced with an unavoidable collision, it applies the brakes to minimise the consequences. It also performs an emergency stop if a pedestrian or cyclist dangerously attempts to cross the path of the car.

In a critical situation where front assist intervenes by braking and the driver indicates they are taking evasive action by the way they move the steering wheel, collision avoidance assist makes targeted interventions in the steering to help drive around the obstacle.

Thanks to two radar sensors at the rear of the car, the side assist detects vehicles approaching from behind or that are in the car’s blind spot. You are informed of this using an LED signal on the inside of the wing mirror housings. Side assist can detect vehicles up to 70 m away and thus also effectively warns you of hazardous situations on motorways and dual carriageways.

The system pre-tensions the front seat belts in the event of imminent collision or in unstable driving situations and engages with the ESC to close the side windows almost fully in order to prevent foreign objects from entering the vehicle. The systém works with the front and rear radars and the rollover sensor.

This new safety feature is another of side assist’s complementary functions. Exit warning visually and acoustically warns you and other passengers, when, for example, you are exiting a parallel parked car, if opening the door could result in a collision with another vehicle, a cyclist or an electric scooter. Exit warning makes use of side assist’s rear radars and monitors the area behind and along the sides of the car up to a distance of 35 m.